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By Husna Rizvi for Climate Home News The UK emits as much as 18 of its former colonies, a report finds, and, along with Australia and Canada, isn’t doing its fair share to cut carbon. Commonwealth heads of state will begin meeting today in London, amid concerns over the unequal effects of climate change and efforts…
By Mokhumi Valela The crucial 2018 harmonised elections are upon us as the nation of Zimbabwe. As different stakeholders prepare for this decisive process for our country, one wonders what its temperament will be. Questions that come to the fore are whether this plebiscite will match the principles of our supreme law of being peaceful,…
By Patricia Mashiri The Harare City Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni has urged all aspiring councillors to be committed to their work once they are elected into office. He made these remarks at a special engagement with aspiring councillors of different political parties.He said the person who wants to serve as a councillor should have the people…
By Eric M Moyo I am now more than ready to vote, and now the wait seems like a long time. I left before I am ready to go and scribble what could be perhaps one of the most important Xs in my life on a ballot paper. Besides, when do I ever get to…
By Kiamuhetsi Sibanda Since independence our county has gone through seven electoral cycles. These electoral cycles have been associated with young people being used for campaigns and the dirty work for the politicians, genocides, violence and abductions. This has resulted in most young people absconding anything to do with the electoral processes, breeding a generation…
Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica, is visiting Zimbabwe, where he is meeting President Emmerson Mnangagwa, as well as visiting EU funded projects. New EU-funded programmes worth €23 million will be launched to improve people’s access to health services and enhance their livelihoods. This visit takes place ahead of the elections in Zimbabwe…
Nicholas Goche, Zanu pf’s incumbent Member of the House of Assembly for Shamva North faces a tough race in the ruling party’s upcoming primary elections. The race for the Shamva North constituency has attracted three other candidates: former journalist and academic, Stanley Karombo, school drop out Zex Pamacheche and Oscar Gorerino, a gold panner….
by Dr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki Twenty years ago, I hoped for an Africa that would draw closer and forge forward boldly, despite a bag of mixed fortunes. Rwanda had just been blighted by genocide; the ubiquitous coup d’état still reared its ugly head in West Africa; although a tentative calm prevailed in Central Africa,…
By Byron Mutingwende Zvishamiso Zvevapostori Church in Africa (ZZCA) has used its Passover Conference held in Marondera to pray for peaceful elections and blessings. The Passover prayer meeting, held under the theme “When I see blood, I pass over” was attended by ZZCA members from the country’s 10 provinces as well as representatives…
The Commissioner of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, Joyce Kazembe, answered important questions about elections in an interview with Radio Zimbabwe Presenter, Sifelani Chikwape recently. Spiked Online Media reproduces part of the interview excerpts below: 1.What is the purpose of the voter registration certificate or slip issued to a registrant? Answer The voter registration certificate…
By Byron Mutingwende ActionAid Zimbabwe has said it is of paramount importance to capacitate journalists and other key stakeholders on the African Governance Architecture (AGA) and the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG). For that reason, ActionAid Zimbabwe (AAZ) is implementing a 3-year project on African Governance Architecture (AGA) focusing on…
By Farai Chirimumimba Beginning with his inauguration speech on 24 November 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has used any other forum he gets to remind delegates or guests that Zimbabwe will hold a free, fair and credible harmonised election. Whether there is going to be a free, fair and credible election can be shown through opinion…
A senior United Nations official will be coming to Zimbabwe to meet with government officials to discuss how the UN can support the upcoming elections and actions it can take to assist in Zimbabwe’s economic recovery. The United Nations Development Programme’s Administrator Achim Steiner will visit Zimbabwe from 15 – 18 March. This is the…
Imagine President Emmerson Mnangagwa squaring off with other presidential candidates such as MDC Alliance hopeful Advocate Nelson Chamisa, National People’s Party (NPP) Dr Joice Mujuru and Alliance for People’s Agenda (APA) candidate Dr Nkosana Moyo. Zimbabwe has never had a live presidential debate but that may change ahead of the ensuing harmonised elections in July/August….
By Byron Mutingwende Church leaders in Zimbabwe had a meeting with President Mnangagwa where they expressed their willingness to be represented in Parliament but there are mixed views concerning that request. Speaking at the church interface meeting with President Mnangagwa, Bishop Clement Chisango of the Ebenezer Holy Church who represented the Council of…
By Joyce Mukucha Signs of Hope Trust a Zimbabwe held a meeting with persons with disabilities to teach them on the importance of participating in the electoral processes. Speaking during the occasion to celebrate women with disabilities held on the 9th of March 2018 in Harare, Samantha Sibanda, the founder of Signs of Hope said…
By Byron Mutingwende Civil society organisations have voiced concern over government’s silence on the whereabouts of missing human rights activist and journalist Itai Dzamara and urged authorities to account for him. Amnesty International urged Zimbabwean authorities to honour the promise they made to investigate “all the leads to establish the whereabouts” of Dzamara, on Friday 9…
By Joyce Mukucha The Government of Zimbabwe is geared at ensuring that awareness on the need and importance of women’s economic empowerment is raised with the aim of promoting and networking them as well as celebrating their achievements. Speaking at a press conference about the International Women’s Day on the 7th of March in Harare,…
By Patricia Mashiri and Joyce Mukucha The Zimbabwe Women’s Parliamentary Caucus (ZWPC) has launched a 50/50 Advocacy Campaign and Manifesto which seeks to spell out their situation and build on the earlier progress made towards gender equality. The manifesto calls for recognition of women’s demands and government’s accountability in advancing gender equality in line with…
By Byron Mutingwende The Marange Development Trust has bemoaned the indiscriminate destruction of the environment by miners in the diamond area of Manicaland. “Before the discovery of diamond, families used to depend on crop cultivation, breeding goats, cattle and chickens, selling wild fruit, charcoal and gardening. However with mining, there is widespread water…
By Farai Chirimumimba Emmerson Mnangagwa was recently all over social media telling everyone who cares to listens the achievements that his government has made since taking over on 24 November 2017. But with his administration reaching its 100-day in office on Sunday 4 March, what has it actually achieved? It has been implementing his inauguration…
By Byron Mutingwende FreeZim Congress is a political party with its root deeply seated in the traditional cultural values, Philippa Jaya has said. The remarks come following kneeling by the party women upon the arrival of their leader Joseph Makamba Busha at a rally held at Freedom Square in Harare on 3 March 2018….
By Farai Chirimumimba MDC-T maybe on course to lose the presidential race and scores of seats at the next election if leadership squabbles persist beyond the 1 March National Council decision to elevate Nelson Chamisa as the substantive party leader at the expense of congress elected Vice-President Thokozani Khuphe. It may not end there….
By PatriciaMashiri The FreeZim Congress party tommorow the 2nd of March 2011 will avail itself to the people at the Freedom square at 11am. The President of the party, Joseph Busha, a well known business man will address the nation at the event. He will give the way forward of the party, the plans they…
The Pan-African Parliament, in collaboration with the Parliamentary Forum on Small Arms and Light Weapons will host the regional seminar “Connecting the dots: Supporting 2030 Agenda, the Arms Trade Treaty and the United Nations Programme of Action on Small Arms implementation through increased parliamentary engagement and action in international processes” on March 2-3 2018 at the PAP Headquarters…
By Byron Mutingwende Conflicts are often escalated in the period immediately prior, during and after elections but the church should preach peace, Archbishop Lameck Chitope of the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) has said. Chitope’s sentiments followed the violence, harassment and hate language against MDC-T Deputy President Dr. Thokozani Khupe and Secretary…
The March Sitting of the Permanent Committees of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) will take place in Midrand, from the 2nd to the 09th at the PAP precincts located at 19 Richards Drive, Gallagher Estate. At least 200 Legislators representing various African countries are expected to convene and work on this agenda under the theme “Winning the Fight…
By Joyce Mukucha In a way of empowering women and protecting their rights, the Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) is developing programmes aimed at ensuring that women who are subjected to persecution, torture and other forms of abuse receive rehabilitative treatment and support. As proposed in the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission Act (NPRC) that…
By Byron Mutingwende Stakeholders in tourism are exploring ways of coming up with a strategy to act as a roadmap to develop the sector as an important pillar of the economy. The meeting, held at the Harare International Conference Centre on 8 February 2018, was graced by Vice President General (Rtd) Dr. Constantino Guveya…
By Byron Mutingwende The Speaker of the National Assembly, Honourable Jacob Mudenda has made a passionate appeal to the African Union (AU) Ambassador to the United States of America to facilitate re-engagement between Harare and Washington. Mudenda registered the request during a courtesy call by members of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) at the…
By Byron Mutingwende The President of the Pan African Parliament (PAP), Honourable Roger Nkodo Dang has hailed Zimbabwe’s peaceful transition and described it as the first of its kind and most peaceful on the continent. Dang made the remarks at a briefing with the media at a local Hotel in Harare upon arrival…
The President of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) H.E. Roger Nkodo Dang, which is one of the 12 organs of the African Union, is visiting Zimbabwe to pay a courtesy call on Zimbabwe’s new President ED Mnangagwa. The Pan African Parliament was established by the 1991 Abuja Treaty but started business in 2004. The PAP…
By Farai Chirimumimba It is strange that President Emmerson Mnangangwa is yet to proclaim the actual date of elections, which are five to six months away. By delaying the announcement of the actual date of elections, the government has killed the prestige of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC). It is normal practice worldwide…
By Joyce Mukucha In pursuit of unlocking the full potential of Zimbabwe as an economically stable country, citizens of Zimbabwe and politicians met to discuss Mugabe’s post era and his leadership so that they could craft a way forward to build a better nation by giving their opinions which they want President Emmerson Mnangagwa to…
By Farai Chirimumimba On Thursday, over 30 senior police officers from the rank of Senior Assistant Commissioner to Deputy Commissioner-General were given their walking papers signed by Acting Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga. This plugging although lawful comes after Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri is on leave pending retirement as the authorities try to “clean up” the Zimbabwe…
By Joyce Mukucha As Zimbabwe is preparing for this year’s harmonised elections, the Zimbabwe Electoral Support Network (ZESN) has launched a debate series on the 18th of January 2018 at Crown Plaza Hotel which is meant to discuss possible ways to pave a way for free, fair and credible elections in the country. The debate…
By Pauline Hurungudo Within the political discourse, many strategies have been used to bring about change and push the development agenda throughout the world. Social Media networks have emerged as effective tools and have since synthesised the globe and people by bridging the continental distance influencing national discourses. Their political role is no longer debatable…
By Byron Mutingwende The Palestinian question can only be addressed adequately through dialogue, the Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda has said. He made the call during the courtesy call by Taghrid Senouar, the Ambassador of Palestine at Parliament Building on 16 January 2018. “Dialogue is the best approach to the Palestinian…
By Farai Chirimumimba President Emmerson Mnangagwa and team have been forced to do clean-up after ascending to power through the help of a coup and impeachment proceedings that forced Mugabe to resign November 2016. The Harare government has in recent weeks been forced to explain its legitimacy mainly stemming from a number of tweets by…
By Byron Mutingwende Honourable Betty Nhambu-Kaseke, the Member of the House of Assembly for Kuwadzana was catapulted into Parliament on a ruling party Zanu (PF) ticket in 2015 following by-elections in the constituency but has brought considerable development in the short space of time she has been in charge of the area. Spiked Online Media…
By Farai Chirimumimba The year 2018 marks 38 years of ZANU-PF rule so any credit or brickbats for all progress or lack of it must go to the party. So, how has ZANU-PF really fared in plundering a once transformed state backed by a successful economic, industrial, agriculture and social development of the 1980s? To…
By PDP Information Department Emmerson Mnangagwa’s last act of 2017 was a bad decision to deploy soldiers on young protestors in Bulawayo at a church service ironically convened to celebrate the peaceful and bloodless nature of the coup of 14 November 2017. The People’s Democratic Party restates the supremacy of the constitution which in section…
By Farai Chirimumimba and Byron Mutingwende A toast to another year coming to an end, and what a year it has been. There can be no doubt that 2017 will be remembered as one of the most eventful years in modern Zimbabwean history. From the coup and surprise exit of Robert Mugabe, downfall and ascendency…
By CiZC Information Department On Wednesday, December 20, 2017, the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa made a State of the Nation Address (SONA) which was his first since the military coup. The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition notes with reservations the SONA delivered by interim President Mnangagwa. It is our considered view that the President’s…
“ZanuPF is not the party of its leader, but the party of its members. As your First Secretary, I am the first among equals.” Mnangagwa says,”the biggest task at hand is rebuilding the country and to improve the livelihoods of all those that call Zimbabwe home.” “The principle of taking back our land, cannot be…
